Sheldon Kinser (December 9, 1942 – August 1, 1988), was an American race car driver. Kinser, a

Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Mo ...

native, died of cancer. He was a three-time USAC

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Series Champion (1977, 1981, 1982). He also drove in the USAC and CART

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series. He competed during the 1975-1981 seasons, with 38 combined career starts, including the

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each year except 1980, when he failed to qualify. He had 11 top-10 finishes, with a best of third at

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in 1979. Sheldon was the second cousin, 1x removed of

Steve Kinser Steve "The King" Kinser (born June 2, 1954) is a former professional sprint car racing driver. He has won 20 championships in the World of Outlaws (WoO) series. Kinser left the World of Outlaws in 2006 to compete with the National Sprint Tour s ...

, the 20-time

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sprint-car champion, and second cousin, 2x removed of

Mark Kinser __NOTOC__ Mark Kinser (born May 5, 1964) is a retired American sprint car racing driver. He hails from Oolitic, Indiana. Cousin to Steve Kinser, Mark won the 1996 and 1999 World of Outlaws championship and was runner-up in 1991, 1998, and 200 ...

Award

* He was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1992.

Indianapolis 500 results

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